Kaiyuan, Liaoning


Kaiyuan is a county-level city in the northeast of Liaoning, People's Republic of China, bordering Jilin for a small section to the north. It is under the administration of Tieling City, the centre of which lies to the southwest.

Administrative divisions

There are 3 subdistricts, 9 towns, and 9 townships under the city's administration.
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Kaiyuan is situated in northeastern Liaoning in the southeastern part of Tieling City on the eastern bank of the middle reaches of the Liao River. It borders Dongfeng County and Qingyuan Manchu Autonomous County to the east, Tieling County to the south, Faku and Changtu counties to the west, and Lishu County to the north. Its administrative area reaches a maximal north-south extent of and east-west width of. In the east, the land begins to transition to the foothills of the Changbai Mountains, while the west is marked by the Songliao Plain.
Kaiyuan has a monsoon-influenced humid continental climate, characterised by hot, humid summers and long, cold and windy, but dry winters. The four seasons here are distinctive. A majority of the annual rainfall of occurs in July and August alone. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from in January to in July, and the annual mean is.

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